court-martial

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Recent Examples of court-martial The base provost marshal and military police supported the driver, and Robinson was subject to court-martial. Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2025 Afterward, a mock court-martial was held, complete with the sentencing and execution of a private accused of desertion. Arkansas Online, 5 Apr. 2025 An Air Force evidentiary hearing was held in May 2024 to determine whether his case should move forward to an Air Force court-martial. Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 13 Mar. 2025 Teixeira pleaded guilty to the obstruction charge at the court-martial on Thursday, his family spokesperson confirmed. Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 13 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for court-martial
Recent Examples of Synonyms for court-martial
Noun
  • These are just some of the hundreds of civilian opposition actors to face military courts in Uganda, even though the country’s supreme court has ruled it unconstitutional.
    Elizabeth Shackelford, Chicago Tribune, 13 June 2025
  • The state's supreme court previously ruled that Catholic Charities, operated by the Diocese of Superior in northwest Wisconsin, was not exempt from paying an unemployment tax like the larger Catholic Church is.
    BrieAnna J. Frank, USA Today, 3 June 2025
Noun
  • Idaho’s high court pointed out that due process applies only when someone could be deprived of life, liberty or property rights.
    Sally Krutzig, Idaho Statesman, 24 June 2025
  • In 2020, the high court ruled that Muslim men who claimed their religious rights were violated for being placed on the government’s no-fly list after refusing to serve as FBI informants could sue the FBI agents for damages.
    Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 24 June 2025
Noun
  • By the time Ono came before his second trial by inquisition, this one at the hands of the governors of the State University System, the counterassault was well and truly underway.
    Ron Cunningham, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 June 2025
  • Biden's physical and mental decline in office and its cover up by those around him is a legitimate scandal worthy of inquisition.
    Carlo Versano, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 May 2025
Noun
  • Chandler complained about her treatment at trial, calling it a kangaroo court.
    Ruth Chenetz, CBS News, 31 May 2025
  • Each of them struggles with their foreign agent status, hiring lawyers to represent them in kangaroo courts where the verdict has been pre-determined.
    Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • However, public trust in that body and the wider judiciary is scant following a slew of high-profile graft scandals coupled with a conspicuous lack of prosecutions or accountability.
    Charlie Campbell, Time, 13 June 2025
  • Hegseth’s reference to limits on the judiciary’s power over foreign policy harkens to the administration’s legal argument against returning Maryland man Kilmar Abrego Garcia from a Salvadoran prison.
    Colin Meyn, The Hill, 12 June 2025
Noun
  • In 2016, an international arbitral tribunal in The Hague dismissed China's sweeping claims in the South China Sea.
    Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 June 2025
  • Hasina and her Awami League party had earlier criticized the tribunal and its prosecution team for their connection with political parties, especially with the Jamaat-e-Islami party.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 2 June 2025

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